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Soucouyant

by David Chariandy ...

A “soucoyant” is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re ... Read more

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A “soucoyant” is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re
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No Pain Like This Body

by Harold Sonny Ladoo ...

Series series A List
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a new introduction by David ChariandySet in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, ... Read more

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The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a new introduction by David ChariandySet in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness,
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I've Been Meaning to Tell You

A Letter to My Daughter

by David Chariandy ...

"Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read." --Aminatta Forna"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote TamiratIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today.I can glimpse, through the lens of my own experi... ... Read more

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"Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read." --Aminatta Forna"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote TamiratIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today.I can glimpse, through the lens of my own experi...
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Brother

A Novel

by David Chariandy ...

"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James" Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via TwitterWINNER--Toronto Book AwardWINNER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeWINNER--Ethel Wi... ... Read more

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"A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James" Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via TwitterWINNER--Toronto Book AwardWINNER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeWINNER--Ethel Wi...
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The Journey Prize Stories 33

The Best of Canada's New Black Writers

by David Chariandy, Esi Edugyan, Canisia Lubrin ...

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by ... Read more

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This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by
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Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada

by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M. G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...

Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: ... Read more

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Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include:
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No Pain Like This Body

by Harold Sonny Ladoo ...

Narrated by Damian Salandy ...

Series series A List
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4 hours 21 min

The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a new introduction by David ChariandySet in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, ... Read more

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The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a new introduction by David ChariandySet in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness,
... Read more

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The Journey Prize Stories 33

The Best of Canada's New Black Writers

by Esi Edugyan, Canisia Lubrin ...

Narrated by Beau Dixon, Patrice Henry, Colton Royce, Emerjade Simms, Sashoya Simpson ...

Unabridged

4 hours 1 min

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by ... Read more

$16.95 USD

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This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada's premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country's best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by
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Mississippi Sissy

by Kevin Sessums ...

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6 hours 12 min

Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is ... Read more

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Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is
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The Language of the Night

Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

by Ursula K. Le Guin ...

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.” ... Read more

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Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.”
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Black Water

Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory

by David A. Robertson ...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart openand with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,identity and love.” —Cherie DimalineIn this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up awayfrom his.. ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart openand with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new understanding of family,identity and love.” —Cherie DimalineIn this bestselling memoir, a son who grew up awayfrom his..
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The North-West Is Our Mother

The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

by Jean Teillet ...

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous ... Read more

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There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and EuropeansTheir story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous
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